Every year, more than 300 TV buyers, sales agents, distributors and festival scouts descend on Arti et Amicitiae on one of Amsterdam’s busiest thoroughfares to watch a wide selection of documentari…
Every year, more than 300 TV buyers, sales agents, distributors and festival scouts descend on Arti et Amicitiae on one of Amsterdam’s busiest thoroughfares to watch a wide selection of documentaries available to the international market.sat down with Docs For Sale manager Laurien ten Houten to discuss the enterprise and what it means for artists and buyers alike.
The festivals that come here are very different. I mean, we have the big festivals—Hot Docs, Sheffield—but we have all kinds of human rights film festivals and environmental film festivals from all over the world. But if you look at the market at the moment, there’s a lot of films, and more and more players, but less and less money. So for sales agents it’s getting harder. They have to make more sales to get the same amount of money. It’s a tough job.It’s always hard to say.
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